Holly Smale

“My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first.”

“The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single one to talk to.”

“Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fairy godmother needs you right back.”

“They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.”

“We each have our own language.Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sense of the world and putting it in order. A narration style that is ours and ours alone. That's why some of us connect and some of us don't. Because even though we can only live in our own heads, sometimes - every now and then - we meet a person we can talk to without speaking at all: whose story we can read, without even trying.”

“I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.That's how I know I'm home.”

“1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x2. I had three. Hope that's OK. Dad x3. I'm just going to have one more. Dad x4. Harriet, your Dad's made himself sick on an entire multipack of Mars Bars again. Please don't leave sweets where we can find them. A x”

“Reason to move to New York: I don't to get left behind”

“And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.”

“Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.”

“Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.”

“I can change my plans. But I can't change my family.”

“Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect”